The Grief Witch's Tea Parlour (Paperback)

Paperback. Ottoline Dray can taste your grief before you sit down.Six generations of Dray women have run The Still on Corrow Street. No signage. No advertisement. The people who need it find it. It is a tea parlour that serves no ordinary blends. Whatever sorrow you have been carrying too long, whatever loss has taken up residence in your chest and started leaving its shoes by the door, Ottoline will make you a cup. The cup will be correct. It has never once failed to be.Then a stranger sits down at the north window table.He orders a blend Ottoline hasn't touched in eleven years. He pays in coins from a year that hasn't happened yet. He leaves no entry in the ledger that writes itself. And when Ottoline reaches out to read his grief - the way she has read nine thousand customers before him - she feels nothing.Not emptiness. Nothing.He comes back every Friday.The cup she makes him goes cold the moment she sets it down. His hand, when she brushes it accidentally, is the temperature of an October morning. He knows things about her parlour he should not know - the name carved above the door before her grandmother changed it, the drawer where her mother kept the recipe book, the blend on the reference shelf that has been waiting fourteen years for the right person to drink it.The right person being, as it turns out, Ottoline herself.Because the stranger is not a customer. He is not a ghost. He is something rarer and considerably more inconvenient - what happens when a grief witch spends fourteen years giving a building everything she cannot carry, and the building, being generous and very old and paying close attention, decides it is finally time to give it back.The Grief Witch's Tea Parlour is a cozy fantasy about the grief we store in old buildings, the people those buildings make from what we leave behind, and one woman's long-overdue appointment on the other side of her own counter.For readers who want their magic quiet, their mysteries warm, and their endings honestly earned. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…